So, you may have been hearing that Namor is the villain for “Iron Man 3″. This is based on three things:

They’re shooting at a studio in Wilmington, North Carolina, that happens to have a huge water tank.

There was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to Atlantis in “Iron Man 2″.

Shane Black, like, totally dissed The Mandarin.

Fans desperately want “Iron Man 3″ to center around “Demon In A Bottle”.

Well, sorry to burst your bubble, fanboys, but we can think of a couple of very good reasons why, in fact, this won’t happen.

First of all, there’s no guarantee they’re adapting “Demon In a Bottle”, or that they’re using the water tank extensively. Secondly, Namor just isn’t that popular a character: witness his recent ongoing bombing after less than a year in print. Thirdly, considering he’s a part of the Defenders, and Marvel has a Doctor Strange movie coming…

We’re not ruling out his showing up; Marvel loves throwing in little cookies like this. But it seems unlikely they’re going to try and pull a “Catwoman” with one of their most popular franchises.

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They did Demon in a Bottle in Iron Man 2. They just truncated it for retards because you can’t successfully depict alcoholism in a 2 hour action movie when you have 3 other subplots running in the background.

I think Favreau could have carried it over as a story arc if Tony had been drunk and depressed at the end of IM2. But I’m guessing if he brought it up at all Marvel squashed it to keep it short and uncomplicated.

There’s an easter egg in the Iron Man 2 Blu-Ray. If you enable cast commentary and hit left where it says DTS 7.1 three times, Jon Favreau suddenly appears behind your couch and challenges you to a cocaine and red bull snort-off. He’ll tell you he’s already been playing for 3 days, but is this really an advantage?

You got Jon Favreau? Man, I feel sorry for you. When I did that, Mickey Rourke came over and I woke up three days later in Tijuana. It was awesome. Well, aside from having to hitchhike three thousand miles home.